Really great small species is thought of as a unifoliate cattleya with bifoliate-type flowers (which are something like those of harrisoniana or loddigesii). Short spikes have a few large (3 ¼”) pastel pink flowers on each spike – looks cute with the small plant carrying such large flowers! Best possible parents have been used.

It can take a long time in a person’s orchid career to recognize the qualities of various species and cultivars. We have come to really appreciate this line of “typical” labiatas. First, it blooms regularly around the time of our big County Fair orchid show in late September early October! The plants are vigorous and have long-lasting flowers. The flowers vary from plant to plant, each unique – all having lavender flowers with beautiful dark lavender lip – so we are able to set up striking displays. This is a connection to nature and the natural world.

A new batch made from a really nice Venezuelan cultivar. The “most atypical Cattleya species”, with tall thin pseudobulbs, and a single green leaf spotted with purple. Flowers have good form for the species and are the light lavender color with vivid dark lavender tubular lips One of my favorite catts.

Medium size bifoliate, with bulbs 7” to 16” tall.. “Sib-cross’ of two well-known clones. Large 4” flowers with the uniform light-lavender colored sepals and petals, lip with whitish overlaying the background color, yellow in center and lavender on apex. The ‘Martinelli’ is the “punctata” type, with small dots on sepals and petals

One of the “improved” forms of the classic Brazilian bifoliate. Large full flat, well-lasting, flowers are blooming on small plants. Nice light pink color, with lighter lip side lobes. Please refer to our picture for the sib-cross TOF3147.

Mother plant is an unbelievable never-before-seen color form, with dark metallic purple color. This from is also called "Peru Dark". This is not the form called "C. maxima var. rubra" - this is something completely different. Note: it takes a few days after the buds open for the unique color to materialize.

Very rare ‘blue’ coerulea form of this great species. Large ice-blue blooms with bluish flush on petals and dark violet blue markings on the front lobe of the lip. Bloom time - spring to summer. Plants from this same batch have bloomed out with the beautiful correct color. Intermediate.

Medium size hot-to-warm growing epiphyte. Long-lasting fragrant flowers that open up very flat. Rich lavender color, especially the lip and column. It is found along low-elevation rivers, in chosen locations, over a 4 million square kilometer area. Often growing on branches out over the water , where the plants benefit form the rising moisture, but also brighter light reflected up from the water. We are excited that we now are able to easily grow this species, using our “empty-pot method”. Limited. Botanical print by Walter Hood Fitch (1817 - 1892), illustrator, Robert Warner (1814-1896) and Benjamin Samuel Williams (1822-1890) editors [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.